By and For All Rhode Islanders: Rhode Island Humanities Strategic Plan 2023 – 2026
Click here to download a PDF of By and For All Rhode Islanders: Rhode Island Humanities Strategic Plan 2023 – 2026.
This plan prioritizes four goals that will guide our actions over the next three years.
- Develop our operations and organization to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
- Strengthen Rhode Island’s cultural sector and civic health through our grantmaking and humanities initiatives.
- Implement engagement that prioritizes community perspectives, connects the humanities to societal challenges, inspires the public, and networks constituencies.
- Develop an equitable and inclusive culture of giving to express and advance our goals, vision, and values.
The plan’s title, “By and For All Rhode Islanders,” is taken from our mission statement and inspires our vision and values. When we recognize the humanities as by and for everyone, our communities are healthier and our democracy is stronger.
Through our previous strategic plan, “Catalyzing the Humanities in Rhode Island, 2014-2019,” Rhode Island Humanities built an organizational foundation of grantmaking, partnerships, and initiatives that empowered us to innovate, increase our impact, and expand our network. In 2020, with the uncertainty wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic and a societal sense of renewed urgency for the racial justice movement, we developed an interim strategic plan to look deeply at our organizational culture, practices, and structure.
“By and For All Rhode Islanders” incorporates what we have learned during this transformational time. It includes our mission, vision, and values, the four overarching goals with key indicators of progress, and our strategy for evaluation. It is accompanied by a detailed action plan focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA). To fulfill our mission to seed, support, and strengthen humanities by and for all Rhode Islanders, we will invest in methods that reach diverse audiences and communities through inclusive and accessible means, while working to overcome inequities and barriers to better resource historically underserved communities.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Action Plan
Click here to download the full DEIA Action Plan as a PDF.
Below is a summary of the DEIA Action Plan.
Feedback
RI Humanities acknowledges that this work is iterative and ongoing. If you have feedback about the 2023 – 2026 Strategic Plan and/or the DEIA Action Plan, we welcome your thoughts. Please use this google form to offer feedback.
Updates
As the RI Humanities staff and board continue this work, period updates will be shared here. Check back often.
